SCOTLAND’S only all-female prison should be demolished and replaced with a smaller specialist jail for high-risk women offenders, a report commissioned by the Scottish Government has recommended.

Councillors are set to decide if there should be an independent inquiry into a childcare unit near Stranraer.

Over 2,200 service users and 700 home carers in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, are set to benefit from the award-winning mobile working tool, inTOUCH and care management system OfficeBase from CACI.

A network of 100 “dementia champions” aiming to improve treatment for the condition has started work at hospitals across Scotland.

A SEVERELY disabled man from Kilsyth has hit out at what he sees as the shambolic mismanagement of North Lanarkshire Council’s social work service.

DRUGS or alcohol were contributing factors to 835 house fires in Scotland in 2011 – almost half of which were in the Strathclyde area.

The director of an Edinburgh youth project has been arrested and charged after indecent images of children were allegedly found on his computer.

A CARE worker has been struck off after she hauled a vulnerable 16-year-old through a secure unit and locked her in a room.

CARE workers in Cumbernauld face a 15 per cent pay cut – and the blame is aimed at North Lanarkshire Council.

THE DEATH toll from an outbreak of flu at a Dundee nursing home has risen to seven, NHS Tayside has revealed.